How
To Tell If Someone’s Lying Just From Looking At Their HandsBy Simon
Cruise

It’s a fact: other
people’s lies
make our lives more difficult. They distort and twist the truth,
con us into believing things never happened, or took place when
they shouldn’t have. There are literally thousands and thousands
of ways people’s untruths and falsehoods taint and make living
our daily lives more of an effort than it really should be.

So what can we do
about it?

How can we put a stop
to lies the second we hear them and reveal the real truth, the
actual facts, the exact situation?

The answer is natural
lie detection – techniques, strategies and knowledge that give
a person the rare and invaluable ability to separate the real
from the fake and always know what to believe and what to question.

So, what does it consist
of? Well, natural lie detection uses no machines, test papers,
no video or audio recordings. It is, as the name suggests, a science
based on human perception and skill.

It has 3 main components.
They are the interpretation and analysis of: body language, psychology,
and verbal communication. By having a deep and expert knowledge
of all three, you can become capable of spotting 99 out of 100
lies, whether they’re spoken over the phone, in person or even
over the internet or via text message. Although learning these
special techniques isn’t difficult when you have the time and
proper reading material, it does require more space to explain
than this short article allows. However, that doesn’t mean we
can’t go over one way many liars give themselves away. This collection
of principles falls under the body language category of natural
lie detection and focuses solely on how a dishonest person uses,
or avoids using, their hands when they’re being deceitful. There
are 3 main hand-related signals of deceptiveness.

Signal #1: HAND GESTURE
FREQUENCY. People use their hands to visually illustrate and emphasise
their statements – it’s a way of painting an abstract picture
in the air to better help the person or people they’re talking
to understand the concepts being covered. When someone lies, however,
their mind works differently to how it normally operates. Their
thought process is dominated by the act of being dishonest convincingly
and they therefore tend to change how they use their hands. The
first change you should look for is in how often they gesticulate
with their hands while talking. The majority of people, when they
lie, lessen the amount of movements they make with their hands
because they subconsciously want to restrict the volume of information
being given to the person they’re lying to – out of fear of saying
too much, either verbally or physically, and getting caught out
or questioned. More proficient liars, or people who have rehearsed
or planned a lie before telling it, actually tend to increase
the frequency of their hand gestures. They’ll slice the air more
with the blade of their hand or point their finger and clench
their fists more frequently to illustrate and back-up what they’re
saying. So, in short, look for a marked difference between the
amount of hand gesticulations a person uses when in normal, day-to-day,
obviously truthful conversation and when you suspect they may
be lying to you or have a good reason to twist or otherwise alter
the truth.

Signal #2: HAND-TO-FACE
ACTIONS. The second signal you should look out for is an increase
in the number of hand-to-face actions a person makes when you
think they could be lying. The main reason they touch their faces
more often when lying than when telling the truth is because of
the internal social pressure they’re feeling, which leaks out
in the form of hand-to-face actions. Look for moments when the
person momentarily covers their mouth with their hand or fingers.
This is a subconscious attempt to stifle themselves and physically
block the lie from leaving their lips – they do this to futilely
try to block their falsehood from reaching you and thereby decrease
the chance of getting caught and lessen their feeling of guilt.
However, many people are on some level aware of how mouth covers
may be interpreted (as a sign that they’re lying) so instead try
to camouflage the action by instead lightly touching their nose
(which indirectly covers their mouth with their hand). Another
reason many liars touch their noses is because of the increased
blood-flow that occurs in its deep tissues, which creates an almost
imperceptible tingle that, although not consciously felt and reacted
to, causes the liar to unwittingly touch their nose for a moment.
So, always keep an eye out for increased hand-to-face actions,
especially those that cover a person’s mouth in some way or another.

Signal #3: THE HAND
SHRUG. When people don’t know the answer to something or want
to convey the messages: “I’m not sure,” or “I don’t care,” they
often lift and quickly drop their shoulders in a shrugging motion.
A variation of shoulder shrugging is the hand shrug: a quick lifting
and dropping of one or both upturned hands. Like shrugging with
the shoulders, it’s a way of expressing a type of diminished responsibility
in regards to an issue or topic – and that’s why liars tend to
overuse the hand shrug while being dishonest. Instead of using
it only to accompany words that express a feeling of uncertainty
or ambivalence – the way people do when being honest – liars use
the hand shrug alongside verbal statements that don’t relate to
“not knowing” or “not caring.” They do this subconsciously to
distance themselves from the lie they’re telling.

Look for these 3 signs
of potential dishonesty whenever you suspect someone might be
lying and you’ll be a step closer to becoming a true master of
deceit detection – a human lie detector.

About the Author:
Simon Cruise is the expert author of revolutionary guide that
details how anyone can learn to become a master of lie detection,
with the ability to analyze the things people say and do and instantly
judge whether or not they can be trusted. Click
here to find out more.